On the boundary of dangerous territory, a troop of about 30 individuals engaging in a border patrol climbs a rocky hill to conduct reconnaissance. Detecting the sounds of adversaries a bit too close ...

Captive chimpanzees have started dangling grass out of their ears and butts in an unusual fad-like "trend," a new study finds. The chimps (Pan troglodytes) insert a blade of grass or stick into their ...

Rene the chimpanzee, who died at the Edinburgh Zoo following a fight among the park's chimp troop Rene, one of the Edinburgh Zoo's beloved primates, has died after sustaining injuries in a fight among ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...

Twenty-five years after the film's release, the chimps from "MVP" feel the lingering effects of a life in show business. Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Tim DiFrisco / Getty, Tom Pidgeon / Getty ...

A study on savannah-living chimpanzees suggests the need to move safely on thin tree branches could explain why early hominins that could walk upright kept their tree-climbing adaptations It’s hard to ...